Few things in life compare to the excitement of moving into your dream house. But if you\u2019re a redeemed child of God, here\u2019s the score: no matter how beautiful your dream house on earth may be, it\u2019s nothing compared to the one you will have in eternity. That\u2019s why Jesus said, \u2018In My Father\u2019s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.\u2019<\/i> (John 14:2 NKJV) When it comes to the house we want to live in, certain questions arise. <\/p>\n
First, what\u2019s the price?<\/i> Answer: more than you could ever afford! In order to redeem you and take you to Heaven, God gave \u2018His only begotten Son.\u2019<\/i> (John 3:16 KJV) Nobody in Heaven will ever say, \u2018Look what Jesus and I accomplished.\u2019 That would make you a co-redeemer with Christ. It would be an insult to the cross. You\u2019d be guilty of a level of pride that would make it impossible for you to live there. <\/p>\n
Hymnist Horatius Bonar wrote, \u2018Upon a life I have not lived, upon a death I did not die; another\u2019s life; another\u2019s death, I stake my whole eternity.\u2019 The Bible speaks of \u2018labouring\u2019<\/i> and \u2018working\u2019<\/i> for God, but don\u2019t get it mixed up. You don\u2019t work to be<\/i> saved; you work because you are<\/i> saved. You don\u2019t labour for your redemption<\/i>; you labour for your reward.<\/i> <\/p>\n
That\u2019s so \u2018God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of His grace and kindness towards us.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians 2:7 NLT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Few things in life compare to the excitement of moving into your dream house. But if you\u2019re a redeemed child of God, here\u2019s the score: no matter how beautiful your dream house on earth may be, it\u2019s nothing compared to the one you will have in eternity. That\u2019s why Jesus said, \u2018In My Father\u2019s house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}